The complete online text of Greybeards at Play by G. K. Chesterton.

The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he converted to Roman Catholicism and became its champion. O...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton as a poet, a dramatist, a traditional novelist, a myste...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hill, in the Kensington neighborhood of London. Chesterto...

THE LIAISON committee had its biannual audience with the Prime Minister yesterday. In the dark hour before war, Mr Blair presented himself to the grand heads of the select committees. They are Parliament's greybeards, they've independent voices often at odds with the Government. They're...

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